European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Is skateboarding new York times for Jeron Hayes there is Only one True purpose los Ummer. It is the Best time Low Ork on Wall rides rail slides inverts and Tail slides. Ii is the Best time to perfect Maneu vers that will impress Peers. It is the Best time to ride a skateboard. Al noon almost every Day the 15-year old Brooklyn resident rides a train into Manhattan and whether he realizes it or not. Helps prove that skateboarding has transcended its West coast image. Jeron and dozens of other teen agers and Young adults ride their skateboards an activity once solely associated with California beaches and flashy exhibitions in suburban sellings in the steel and Concrete heart of the City under the Manhattan ramps leading to the Brooklyn Bridge. I try to ride my skateboard every Day Jeron said. I do it even when i m sick it s the Only thing i do " Alex Munoz. 17. A resident of Brooklyn who also rides his skateboard under he ramps said it just seems that everyone is doing it. You can do your own thing and you Don t have to follow anybody s Lead for the second time since it was introduced in California in the mid-1960s, skateboarding has made a comeback but those involved in skateboarding say that this time the Sporl will not fade away As it did in the late 1970s, just alter a Brief resurgence. Tom Cozens president of the nation a i skateboard association based in Vista calif., said interest in the sport would probably level Olf in Tho next live years but would not decrease dramatically because As he put it. Skateboarding has finally reached mainstream people no longer look at skateboarding like it s a Hula hoop said Cozens whose group conducts tournaments across the nation. They now see it As something that requires a lot of skill and practice. When you see skateboards in advertising during the super bowl you know it s become mainstream. And parents realize it s a great alternative to gangs and in the past some have viewed the skateboarder As a rebel someone who wore Punk Rock clothes and decorated his skateboard and equipment with skulls and crossbones. Skateboarding a made a comeback with Manhattan ramps leading to Brooklyn Bridge a popular tile Lor the port some people tended to equate skateboarders with skinheads and satanists Cozens said. But nothing could be further from the truth. Now that it s More Middle America that perception is Frank Calella the owner of psycho skates a Morristown n.j., store that specializes in skateboard equipment said kids using skateboards used to have a bad boy Imago. But the clothing is now More preppie " the growth of skateboarding has not been unhindered. Many City and town governments throughout the nation citing the sport As a Public nuisance have passed Laws to prohibit skateboards on sidewalks in streets or in Public Parks. Backers of such Laws Point to the More than 80,000 skateboarding injuries reported to the consumer product safety commission last year As proof that the activity can be hazardous. But skateboarding proponents say their sport is no More dangerous than bicycling. When people see someone on a skateboard coming toward them Calella said they think the person is out of control but they Don t realize that a kid can steer and Stop just As he can on a restrictions on skateboarding have forced youths to scramble for alternatives. Those without the Means to build their own a shaped ramps called half pipes resort to commercial parking lots and indoor recreation centers. In new York where the Parks and recreation department prohibits skateboarding in Parks and on playgrounds Many skateboard riders have found the area under the Brooklyn Bridge ramps on the Manhattan Side to be the Best Arena. We re really not allowed to skate anywhere else said Claude sea aves 14, a resident of Brooklyn it s unfair because More kids Are skating now than Are Riding bikes. But this is a great with a fairly smooth surface Many curbs to jump and several inclines Good for stunts the Graffiti covered Banks below the Bridge Are Ideal for daring riders. They even attract out of town skateboarders. This is better than any place in Philadelphia said Roger Browne 24. Of Philadelphia who comes to the area when he is in town All i do is go to work sleep and ride my skateboard. This place is perfect for we were taught in Grade school that a House divided against itself cannot yet we have volatile Little groups of smokers who huddle in theater lobbies thinking bad thoughts about the non smokers inside. There Are pro life is. Pro Choice factions marching in the streets and gun control advocates lining up against the Era but i have never seen such an aggressive Campaign As the oat people is. Those of us who want a breakfast we can Swallow. They re everywhere. You can t turn on the television Sel without an oat disciple putting it to the Guy who just wants to sit Down and enjoy his Sweet Roll. If i want guilt that Early in the morning i la step on my bathroom scale i never Trust a Cereal that you can t drown i hate anything that floats lathe top of the milk and never gets soggy that is very unnatural. Page 16 the stars and stripes my husband will buy anything with Oats in it whether it be Cereal shampoo or a laxative. It does t matter he figures it s Good for you. I say if Oats Are so Good or you then How come we a horse once who would t eat them unless they were coated with molasses oat people Are the same ones who last year worshipped at the shrine of our lady of bran. Did you Ever look at bran people in the supermarket i mean really took at them they re not Happy they re not Happy because they know what they re in for. They re committed to a Box that never offers a toy inside or a Coupon for an african Violet or a neat recipe for a party mix. Every Inch of the Box is devoted to a list of nutrients that you can t pronounce let alone translate the sugar people Are trying to fight Back the Best Way they can. Their commercials show adults whose saturday August 26,1989 faces Are shadowed to conceal their identity sitting in a basement somewhere Ealma their children s Cereal that is loaded with sugar. Since they Are not kids they Are not allowed to eat it in the Kitchen. What sponsors should be saying is that half of the sugar coated flakes Are eaten by adults. Why should t we Bounce of the Walls with our children my husband and i have one of the few mixed marriages in this country to survive. Every morning we face each other across the breakfast table like adversaries he with his Oats and me with my sugared flakes. He reads me the percentage of niacin in his Cereal and i Tell him i May win a porsche he crunches and i snap and crackle. It s a standoff. I m waiting for the Day when he Waves an empty Box at me and delivers the line did you eat All of my Oats c 1989 Emu
